I know the audience didn't know what to do. Voodoo was not an album for the faint at heart. D'Angelo knew what he was doing. He knew that the audience would not understand but he stuck it out because he had a message to get out. I respect him for that. To be such a young guy at the time, he was so much more mature with his music and the writing of it. Kind of like Tupac. Wise beyond his years. Poetic with his words.
I was at the show in Brixton in 2000. He started his set with this. Just the finger clicks. Whole stage dark. His voice, then the band kicked in and the lights went up and the best show I've ever seen began. What a writer too.
D'Angelo breaks it down in this song. All the profusion of illusions that is popular culture today. If you look at it, it breaks a lot of artists down. Walking the line of participating in the illusion and still trying to maintain a sense of integrity, a sense of self. I am looking forward to the day when all r&b and hip-hop performers can be themselves all the time, instead of the illusions the industry and and their brainwashed by the industry fans expect them to be.
If that’s mtv awards 2000 then Aaliyah was looking to hear D’Angelo live lol! I’m from that interview with Beyonce they called him hot & fine... they never lie 🔥🔥🔥
The bass line from Devil's Pie is actually from a few notes from the beginning of Teddy Pendergrass - "And if I Had" which DJ Premier (the song's producer) sampled and flipped in a genius way only he can do.
This performance is such an important cultural document. It is a perfect example of the greatness of youtube, and why it should not be completely subject to the rules of intellectual property. D still sings Devil's Pie in concert (I went to a show last year), but it doesn't have the same wallop. The 15% who aren't deaf and blind need to see this video, to inspire them not to mimic the 85% who are.
D'angelo was like im tired of singing untitle ima do the total opposite, i thought it was the greatest thing ever. I heard that melody that the guitar and bass are playing together, i think its from a funkadelics tune.
Damn. Shelby gettin' it in the back. lol Goodness. Nothing like the Soultronics. No disrespect to the new band but damn....When these cats get together its something else. Wish they ALL would come together just one more time. Waiting for that album to drop this year!!!!
I DAMN NEAR STARVED TO DEATH TRYING TO GET MY ADS BACK AFTER SEEING THIS VID... BUT MAN OH MAN THEY ARE ROCKING THIS SONG. CALL IT A LIE? I DON'T THINK SO.... PREACH D.
The worst thing D'Angelo ever did to his career was taking his shirt off. The best thing D'Angelo ever did for his career was taking his shirt off. Too bad it took *that* to establish him as a star in the mainstream since it overshadowed his art for a huge portion of his audience. Love, love, D'Angelo's music. If only more performers in the black community would become true artists and drop the same boring rap/trap/hip-hop/whatever it's called this week and try making something real.
D'Angelo was already a star in the african american community..... what happened to D was that he became "too attractive" the fame and attention that it brought he was NOT ready for , in pop culture white men are promoted as the sex symbols rarely does a black man achieve that level of notoriety white folks don't believe in ugly stars and for the most part white women don't find black men attractive it's one thing when black and hispanic women think your fine that's cool it's a whole nother thing when white women lust after you and want you on the cover of vouge magazine..... untitled dropped and white women all over the country said 👀 who is that he became a pop star overnight by default and it drove him nearly insane ( literally )
Yea he's stated many times that he hated performing shirtless. And women would literally try to pull his jeans off at shows and he hated that even more.
@@id6992 Very well put. I'm a white guy. And can confirm that those stereotypes are indeed stereotypes for a reason - cuz they are pretty much true! aLL I know is we need a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th album!!!! lol
Actually D'Angelo is making music, hes overseas doing shows, supposedly hes doing a show at the PNC Banks Arts Center in Jersey City july 13 2012...but thats TBA
@@chrisreed3022 Racially, Pino is Italian, (tip off is in his name) which is a blend of a bunch of European, Middle Eastern and Africans who came to Italy during and after the Roman Empire. But the whole conversation about race and music is hilarious. It's always been a blend, from the time some French guy invented ragtime, Scott Joplin's parents took him to a German piano teacher, Elvis, Beatles, Stones and Led Zep covered black soul and blues songs, Jimi copped a Jeff Beck lick, Sly used white drummers, rock groups in the 70s used black bass players.
@@aquamarine99911 Cool reply.Thanks. I grew into my teens in the 70's and the whole funk/rock crossover was rife and there was a lot of cultural mixing. I was led to believe Pino grew up in Wales, a very musical nation and home of Tiger Bay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Bay. I lived in Wales and the Welsh and the Italians have a thing with -io as a suffix, hence in welsh Parcio is Parking. I think this is the same in Italian.
@Daniel G Typical palm-colored person. You insinuated that Jimi built his style on Jeff Beck, another palm-colored Black music vulture-pirate. Are you high? I don't have time to have side-arguments about "NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE...." with every pink person. Put your precious individualism aside for a minute and try to understand the larger point. It's understood that most things are not absolute; why do we have to do asides to state the obvious? Generalities exist and as long as we acknowledge this fact has consequences across a range of potencies and effects, let's deal with the forest and not the trees. I can't with white people sometimes, man. It's exhausting.What does Sly having white drummers prove? Or rock bands having African bassists? How about explaining why Stones bassist Darryl Jones still gets racist harassment...while playing in another vulture-pirate band whose whole oeuvre and wealth is built on Black pain and the music that that pain gave birth to. White privilege saw to it that they've never had to sing the blues on the way to the bank. That goes for every vulture-pirate pink poseur artist. That kumbaya shit you're pushing rings hollow when those facts are weighed in the measure.
A truly astonishing performance. Great article by Kristin Corry here www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jzgb/dangelos-voodoo-redefined-what-an-randb-album-could-be. A world changing album.
@@norrisjones6837 Sounds bad, but why can't D"angelo find a brotha to hold down the bottom? There are black bassists way funkier, more soulful and with better chops than Pino. Of all things...the bass?
Man do that again. You should really delete your request to check out TOM TOM. It was the most un-produced bullshit I've EVER waisted my time to attempt to listen to.
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I know the audience didn't know what to do. Voodoo was not an album for the faint at heart. D'Angelo knew what he was doing. He knew that the audience would not understand but he stuck it out because he had a message to get out. I respect him for that. To be such a young guy at the time, he was so much more mature with his music and the writing of it. Kind of like Tupac. Wise beyond his years. Poetic with his words.
This version of the song was straight up mind-blowing.
That ominous bass digs into your soul tho…it shakes the foundations
Pino!!
This performance was too real for the audience. D'Angelo sent them home thinking like, "what did I just see?"
I read somewhere that his record label told him not to perform this song.
preach the gospel D'angelo. This is performance art at its purest form. He did that!!!
I was at the show in Brixton in 2000. He started his set with this. Just the finger clicks. Whole stage dark. His voice, then the band kicked in and the lights went up and the best show I've ever seen began. What a writer too.
I used to have video of the Brixton show from the Voodoo tour
@@Scrapluv used to??? What a show eh?
@@ritmo113 Yeah, it was on a VHS that deteriorated before I could transfer it to DVD. Excellent show, loved the Soultronics!
@@Scrapluv can you share?
@@funkateer2029 it's right here: ruclips.net/video/wM4E4FYRG1o/видео.html
I'm still thinking about this performance YEARS later. Finally found it.
D'Angelo breaks it down in this song. All the profusion of illusions that is popular culture today. If you look at it, it breaks a lot of artists down. Walking the line of participating in the illusion and still trying to maintain a sense of integrity, a sense of self. I am looking forward to the day when all r&b and hip-hop performers can be themselves all the time, instead of the illusions the industry and and their brainwashed by the industry fans expect them to be.
This performance made me love the recording even more.
I remember seeing this live on TV 18yrs ago and I'm still coming back to it. And it still sounds like the future.
Best 4 minutes in the history of MTV
He warned us.
He did indeed
I don't think people were ready for this. D'Angelo was too real for people.
They wanted him to sing, "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" on VH1, but not "Devil's Pie".
Dang I still remember this was on the TV in the background and a room full of people all stood still with mouths open watching.
The audience wasn't ready for this.
Anthony Hamilton was killing the background vocals too
people in the audience wasn't expecting that at all lmao. i love it
Ayyy they was looking at him like what the hell
Shemar Pevey Because they expected him to sing, "Untitled (How Does It Feel)".
XAVIER LEEDS & FAMILY Because they wanted him to sing, "Untitled (How Does It Feel)" instead of "Devil's Pie".
Exactly they wanted something superficial and sexy...he was like naw bitch, here is some revolution for dat ass!
They wasn't ready for this.
Your right..Alot of people aren't even hip to this song. and what he's really talkin bout..I love it.
On repeat for like the 20th time..."Apocalypse? Ain't no doubt!"
I think this his best performance ever. And he has a few
I love when they go nuts while performing
All that audience knew was there was a black guy, shirtless and singing. But real ones knew he ROCKED THIS PERFORMANCE 🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥🖤🔥
His performance was a whole message.
Sorry D'angelo. Come back in 75 years we ain't ready for this shit!
godmode unlocked
He got GangSTA on the Piece!!! SPeak the Truth...Real Music
I would love to see the peoples faces when he did this song...I know they weren't expecting this..LOL
No one understood this performance back then. Now I do
Erika Michelle I did
@@Missfitt007 I saw him in 2000 for his Woodoo Tour in Paris, France, and I did too.
I was 10 when this aired and I remember watching lol
Explain?
@@Missfitt007 who’s that
Rest In Peace, Brother Jef Lee Johnson...........
If that’s mtv awards 2000 then Aaliyah was looking to hear D’Angelo live lol! I’m from that interview with Beyonce they called him hot & fine... they never lie 🔥🔥🔥
i kno a lot illuminati didnt like dis performance but oh well... "dnt sell out for a slice of the devil's pie"
-D'Angelo lol
The bass line from Devil's Pie is actually from a few notes from the beginning of Teddy Pendergrass - "And if I Had" which DJ Premier (the song's producer) sampled and flipped in a genius way only he can do.
This performance is such an important cultural document. It is a perfect example of the greatness of youtube, and why it should not be completely subject to the rules of intellectual property. D still sings Devil's Pie in concert (I went to a show last year), but it doesn't have the same wallop. The 15% who aren't deaf and blind need to see this video, to inspire them not to mimic the 85% who are.
K
Agreed.
His backup singers tho! Cool as fk!
He walked off as if he didn't care about the audience's reaction. They were expecting something along the lines of Brown Sugar.
I can't believe this is my first time seeing this. Waaaaaay ahead of its time
People in there got blown away for sure! Awesome!!!!
D Angelo know hip hop beats
D'angelo was like im tired of singing untitle ima do the total opposite, i thought it was the greatest thing ever. I heard that melody that the guitar and bass are playing together, i think its from a funkadelics tune.
Sly and the family stone I think
He talking to all the celebrities in the house. They sitting there quite.
They wasn't ready to here this.
everything about this is out of this world amazing!
I love this version..
This pops up on my feed every morning. 👀
fire.. the crowd looked like they was in shock lol
They wasn't ready for it. They went home f***** up after this. D'Angelo was too real for them.
They more than likely expected him to do “Untitled” if ANYTHING. The label told D’Angelo not to perform this song too... 😂😂
Now THAT is real art
That P bass is call'n my name. Hav' mercy. This song gets down in ya'.
This song is "too much" good God!! 🔥
Still 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I want him to tour again
He got an album coming so I’m sure he’ll be on the road once everything is good to go
Too much greatness on that stage.... damn
Damn. Shelby gettin' it in the back. lol Goodness. Nothing like the Soultronics. No disrespect to the new band but damn....When these cats get together its something else. Wish they ALL would come together just one more time. Waiting for that album to drop this year!!!!
Pino Palladino and Questlove. Jesus Christ.
Damn he was a good looking dude
I DAMN NEAR STARVED TO DEATH TRYING TO GET MY ADS BACK AFTER SEEING THIS VID... BUT MAN OH MAN THEY ARE ROCKING THIS SONG. CALL IT A LIE? I DON'T THINK SO.... PREACH D.
The worst thing D'Angelo ever did to his career was taking his shirt off. The best thing D'Angelo ever did for his career was taking his shirt off. Too bad it took *that* to establish him as a star in the mainstream since it overshadowed his art for a huge portion of his audience. Love, love, D'Angelo's music. If only more performers in the black community would become true artists and drop the same boring rap/trap/hip-hop/whatever it's called this week and try making something real.
Hip hop is real music as long as there's a real message and it makes u feel good inside
D'Angelo was already a star in the african american community..... what happened to D was that he became "too attractive" the fame and attention that it brought he was NOT ready for , in pop culture white men are promoted as the sex symbols rarely does a black man achieve that level of notoriety white folks don't believe in ugly stars and for the most part white women don't find black men attractive it's one thing when black and hispanic women think your fine that's cool it's a whole nother thing when white women lust after you and want you on the cover of vouge magazine..... untitled dropped and white women all over the country said 👀 who is that he became a pop star overnight by default and it drove him nearly insane ( literally )
@@id6992 Well said and excellent point.
Yea he's stated many times that he hated performing shirtless. And women would literally try to pull his jeans off at shows and he hated that even more.
@@id6992 Very well put. I'm a white guy. And can confirm that those stereotypes are indeed stereotypes for a reason - cuz they are pretty much true! aLL I know is we need a 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th album!!!! lol
Pino! That groove is so tight! Smh...
Go D, tell 'em!!
lmaooooooooo i know, especially when they all started raising their hands to the sky and flames bust out and shyt LOL
i need this in HD please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome!
Actually D'Angelo is making music, hes overseas doing shows, supposedly hes doing a show at the PNC Banks Arts Center in Jersey City july 13 2012...but thats TBA
QuestLove on drums!!!
Legendary
man, you are da shit, i was looking for this vid since 2 or 3 years ago. well done. fucking great performance.
Brave dude!
sheesh . this man here!
Ferocious.
the great
I was feeling D'angelo's performance from start to finish. And might I add, body was banging🙄🙆
Pino!!
I love it
awesome!!
Love.
My sentiments exactly!
Gòod God this is for 2050
💯 no one ready for this!!
Too real
D'Angelos new album his the shelf in March...13
He shoulda did this number at the BET awards. But his performance was good.
GREASE
damn they kilt that shit
Pino has waaaay too much funk and soul for a white boy...LOL.
He is Welsh. The Welsh are born to sing. They do Eisteddfod. eisteddfod.cymru/amdanom-ni They ain't English.
@@chrisreed3022 Racially, Pino is Italian, (tip off is in his name) which is a blend of a bunch of European, Middle Eastern and Africans who came to Italy during and after the Roman Empire. But the whole conversation about race and music is hilarious. It's always been a blend, from the time some French guy invented ragtime, Scott Joplin's parents took him to a German piano teacher, Elvis, Beatles, Stones and Led Zep covered black soul and blues songs, Jimi copped a Jeff Beck lick, Sly used white drummers, rock groups in the 70s used black bass players.
@@aquamarine99911 Cool reply.Thanks. I grew into my teens in the 70's and the whole funk/rock crossover was rife and there was a lot of cultural mixing. I was led to believe Pino grew up in Wales, a very musical nation and home of Tiger Bay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Bay. I lived in Wales and the Welsh and the Italians have a thing with -io as a suffix, hence in welsh Parcio is Parking. I think this is the same in Italian.
@@aquamarine99911 so according to you, white people invented black music? OK.
@Daniel G Typical palm-colored person. You insinuated that Jimi built his style on Jeff Beck, another palm-colored Black music vulture-pirate. Are you high?
I don't have time to have side-arguments about "NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE...." with every pink person. Put your precious individualism aside for a minute and try to understand the larger point. It's understood that most things are not absolute; why do we have to do asides to state the obvious?
Generalities exist and as long as we acknowledge this fact has consequences across a range of potencies and effects, let's deal with the forest and not the trees. I can't with white people sometimes, man. It's exhausting.What does Sly having white drummers prove? Or rock bands having African bassists?
How about explaining why Stones bassist Darryl Jones still gets racist harassment...while playing in another vulture-pirate band whose whole oeuvre and wealth is built on Black pain and the music that that pain gave birth to. White privilege saw to it that they've never had to sing the blues on the way to the bank. That goes for every vulture-pirate pink poseur artist.
That kumbaya shit you're pushing rings hollow when those facts are weighed in the measure.
👌👌👌👌🎶🎶🎶🎶😉😉😉
just know he took the pie so that is his god
It's really time now to choose which god we trust now. Lol.
I heard that his label begged him not to perform this
I could understand why, but this performance was crazy!
this where ciscero masego got got good to know from
A truly astonishing performance. Great article by Kristin Corry here www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7jzgb/dangelos-voodoo-redefined-what-an-randb-album-could-be. A world changing album.
Does anyone know who the two guitarists are? (I know that Pino Palladino is the tall bass player)
One of them is Jef Lee Johnson, brilliant jazz-blues guitarist who unfortunately passed away in 2013.
@@TheDemos10 yes!!! Jef Lee Johnson ❤ rip
The other guitarist is me ( Norris Jones ) . Jonz, tha cat in tha hat, shades etc...
@@norrisjones6837 Sounds bad, but why can't D"angelo find a brotha to hold down the bottom? There are black bassists way funkier, more soulful and with better chops than Pino. Of all things...the bass?
what did dangelo mean by devils pie? I love this song.
Money.
Uthman Zubair yes money and power
Read between the lyrics
shedding light on how others in the industry have sold their souls out for money and power. Critiquing and criticizing the elite and the illuminati
Palladino. That is all.
Man he use to be so fine
roots? I'd say so.
Check out speak MY mind by rap artist TomTom
Man do that again. You should really delete your request to check out TOM TOM.
It was the most un-produced bullshit I've EVER waisted my time to attempt to listen to.
What is he saying tho
Anyone come from Bey chatting to Aaliyah?
Just noticing this the whitest comment ever!
I remember being disappointed with the album, buying it after seeing this performance.
Chuch not church chuch up in heah.